Eian Elmer scored 12 of his team-high 18 points in the first half and grabbed nine rebounds, while Peter Suder added 17 points and seven rebounds to keep No. 23 Miami (Ohio) unbeaten with a 90-74 road win over Marshall on Saturday afternoon in Huntington, West Virginia.

Antwone Wilfork added 15 points and seven rebounds for Miami (24-0), which led wire-to-wire. Miami and No. 1 Arizona remain the only two Division I unbeaten men’s basketball in the country.

Noah Otshudi had a game-high 23 points, while Wyatt Fricks added 16 points and 10 rebounds for Marshall (15-9).

While the game was scheduled as part of the Mid-American /Sun Belt Conference challenge, the two schools were longtime rivals in the MAC, with the RedHawks extending their lead in the all-time series 49-29.

Marshall was playing without one of its key players for a second straight game, as injured 7-foot-4 Matt Van Komen sat on the bench in street clothes. Van Komen ranks sixth in the country with 58 blocks this season.

Miami took advantage early, racing out to a 9-2 lead. Leading 22-16, Miami erupted for a 19-1 run, highlighted by a four-point play from Almar Atlason in a 13-0 spurt. Elmer was also big early for Miami, draining all four of his 3-point attempts for 12 first-half points.

Marshall missed nine of its first 10 from beyond the arc and opened the game ice-cold from the field. After making six of their first 11, the Herd missed 17 straight shots, including six 3-point attempts. Marshall finished the first half just 10-of-33 from the floor.

Trailing 41-17, Marshall did cut into Miami’s lead before the break, outscoring the RedHawks 14-8 to trim Miami’s lead to 49-31 at the half.

Miami scored the opening basket of the second half to restore the 20-point lead, and Miami led 56-36 before Marshall made a charge to cut the RedHawks lead down to 59-49. But Marshall point guard Jalen Speer picked up his fourth personal foul with 11:41 left in the second half and had to go to the bench, and Miami answered with six straight points.

Marshall cut the deficit to single digits twice in the final 10 minutes but could only get as close as 67-58 on an Otshudi layup with 7:46 remaining.

–Field Level Media

Jason Edwards returned from a seven-game injury absence to score a game-high 25 points and lead Providence to a 90-72 Big East win over visiting DePaul on Saturday afternoon.

Edwards shot 8 of 13 overall, including 5-for-8 from 3-point range, and added four rebounds and two assists in just 24 minutes as the Friars never trailed.

Jaylin Sellers added 21 points, Ryan Mela posted 16 points and eight rebounds and Oswin Erhunmwunse stacked up 10 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks for Providence (11-13, 4-9), which has won back-to-back Big East games for the first time this season.

Providence’s conference-best offense clicked at 58.9%, including 65.4% after intermission, as the hosts cruised to a 17-point halftime lead.

Brandon Maclin scored 17 points to lead three double-figure scorers for DePaul (12-12, 4-9), which has lost four straight. Kaleb Banks had 11 points and N.J. Benson 10 with seven boards.

Erhunmwunse’s dunk and Sellers’ 3-pointer helped Providence start with a 5-0 lead, but CJ Gunn opened DePaul’s scoring with a midrange jumper and capped a 7-2 run with a game-tying 3-pointer in transition at the 16:29 mark.

That would be the only tie of the game as the Friars held the Blue Demons to one field goal over the next six minutes while building their lead to double digits. Jamier Jones started the 10-2 spree with a 3-point play, then Sellers followed with a 3-pointer and a stepback jumper.

Benson’s alley-oop dunk finished a quick 5-0 DePaul burst to close within 22-16 with 9:07 left, but that inspired another big Providence run. Erhunmwunse scored eight straight, including flying in for a putback dunk and finishing an Edwards assist through traffic, to seize a 38-20 lead with 3:10 to go.

After falling behind 43-26 at the break, DePaul scored on its first six possessions of the second half — including eight points by Maclin. However, that only trimmed Providence’s lead to 51-38 as the Friars kept rolling, too.

Stefan Vaaks and Jones flushed back-to-back dunks to cap a 9-0 Friars run in just 2:02 that upped their lead to 62-40 with 12:25 to go. Providence led by as much as 27 before DePaul closed on a 11-2 run.

–Field Level Media

Xzayvier Brown scored 20 points and Oklahoma led from start to finish and eventually held on for a 92-91 road win at No. 15 Vanderbilt in Southeastern Conference play at Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday afternoon.

The Sooners (12-12, 2-9 SEC) shot 53.4% from the floor and snapped a nine-game losing streak.

Brown canned a pair of free throws with 3.4 seconds left that turned out to be crucial when Tyler Tanner (37 points, nine assists) banked in a 3 at the buzzer for the Commodores.

The Sooners received 17 points from Nigel Pack and 14 from Tae Davis.

Vanderbilt (19-4, 6-4) got 18 points from Tyler Nickel and 13 from AK Okereke.

Vanderbilt shot 47.4% from the field.

Brown hit a lay-up off a Derrion Reid steal to put the lead over 20 (61-40) for the first time with 15:47 to play.

The Sooners milked the shot clock inside 10 seconds for much of the remainder of the game until it nearly backfired. They led 80-59 with 4:59 left until Tanner, who had 26 in the second half, led a furious comeback.

Oklahoma took a 48-34 halftime lead thanks to 58.6% to 38.5% edge in shooting as well as advantages in turnovers (8-6) edge in turnovers and rebounding (18-13).

Davis hit his first five shots and scored 14 points as part of the Sooners’ 24-8 lead in the game’s first 7:21. Oklahoma connected on 9 of its first 13 shots, four of them 3s.

Vanderbilt clawed within 33-27, but the Sooners put together a 9-2 run to go up 42-29 after Jones canned a corner 3, drew a third foul on Mike James and then hit the ensuing free throw.

Tanner played with his right (shooting) thumb taped in the second half. He was the only one of Vanderbilt’s point guards to play on Saturday as Duke Miles (16.6 ppg) and Frankie Collins (7.8) were both out again with injuries.

It was a Quad 3 loss for Vanderbilt, which hadn’t lost outside Quad 1 this season.

–Field Level Media